“As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.”

“The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.”

“We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.”

“All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others”

“By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives. ”

“Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.”

“With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.”